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lukewarm about it, other agencies in government are not lukewarm and would be 

 delighted to administer it. Or we might even consider creating a new agency, but 

 I hate to see that done, if it can be avoided. 



The purpose of may bill is to provide a take off point that we can discuss 

 for general reactions and, I hope, approval. I realize the final bill that may 

 emerge will be different in many respects from the bill that we have before us 

 today, but this is the best thinking that with Mr. Beardsley's help and other 

 people's help, we put together at that time. We don't have a monopoly on know- 

 ledge. But we in the Congress must do our best to decide who could best admin- 

 ister this concept. The thought of matching funds is a good idea. There is no 

 reason why we couldn't put it in the bill in the course of the hearings. 



In this connection, I would like to see hearings on my bill which, by happy 

 coincidence, comes before the committee of which I am a member, in January or 

 February. We will hope that at that time the best ideas of this conference could 

 be put forward and might well be adopted. I'm not sold on not having matching 

 funds. I much prefer it, but I'm not sure that the matching funds would always 

 be forthcoming. 



The question was raised - why not raise the percentage from 10 per cent 

 to a more generous amount? This again is purely a question of political judg- 

 ment. It developed out of a luncheon table discussion of six or eight of us, doing 

 our best thinking as to what seems possible at this time in the Congress and that 

 we might get passed. Quite honestly, if we get my bill through the Senate, amen- 

 ded any way this coming session, we would be very lucky, indeed. I would doubt, 

 too, that we would get it through the whole Congress this coming session. But 

 I'm confident that eventually a bill of this sort will get through the Congress, It 

 might take one or two or three Congresses to do it, but with your help, it can 

 eventually be done. I think if we raised the amount to 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of 

 the off shore rents and royalties, we would find very real political obstacles to 

 its passage. If I could be assured that we could get the bill through and make it 

 a 100 per cent of the rents and royalties, I would be glad to do so. But I would 

 have to make a political judgment as to what kind of bills will get through. 



Finally, the point of this panel today is not just sea -grant universities, but 

 what I call sea -grant colleges, which I think is perhaps more what I have in mind. 

 Sea-grant universities would apply just to a few great institutions. But I have in 

 mind perhaps a more wide cutting up of our poor little chicken, though not as 

 widely as some of you would like! As sea-grant colleges, there will come many 

 problems of implementation. How do we implement them? Before we start cut- 

 ting up our little chicken and implementing this bill, we have to get it into being, 

 get the Act into being. That means legislation, the translating of this concept 

 into law. And, quite honestly, I can do just so much as one individual. A great 

 deal of the rest of the load of doing this will have to come from each one of you 

 who are here and come from all around the country and who believe in the con- 

 cept, I would welcome, too, any of your suggestions as to how we could get this 

 bill through, because even if a bill provides for motherhood, and the flag, we 

 still have to get a certain amount of national support building up for this on any 

 bill. 



FOLLOWING THESE OPENING STATEMENTS, THERE WAS GEN- 

 ERAL DISCUSSION. INCLUDING QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR. 

 WHAT FOLLOWS IS A SUMMARY OF THIS DISCUSSION AND THE 

 CLOSING STATEMENTS OF THE PANEL MEMBERS. 



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